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Editor's note

Posted:
11/28/2012 01:00:00 AM MST

On Friday, the Camera's Op/ed page featured a guest opinion attributed to Tzvi Darling entitled "Israel has a right to defend herself." Darling had submitted it directly to the Camera as his own work, and we did contact him to tell him the guest opinion he submitted was selected for publication.

On Monday, a reader contacted the Camera saying that he had seen a similar piece posted by someone else on Facebook. We followed up with Darling, who then told us he did not write the piece. Since he was not the author, the piece never should have been published in the Camera. We have removed it from our website.

A certain level of trust has to exist for us to be able to publish opinions and letters from the general public. Certain form letters and widely circulated materials are easy to catch in time; we regret that this particular opinion was not.

Readers who would like to submit their own, original work can contact me, Erika Stutzman, at stutzmane@dailycamera.com or 303-473-1354, to discuss their ideas. The preferred length for a guest opinion is 600 to 750 words. Each writer or organization is limited to four guest opinions per year. A full list of our guidelines for guest opinions is available here: http://dailycamera.com/guestopinion/.

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